I've seen a lot of general theories that Grogu is Yoda and Yaddle's child, which makes the most sense and I generally agree with, but I have another theory - that Yoda's species sends out the best and brightest of their force sensitive youth to be trained by the Jedi, or Alternatively is exiling them.

Since the only examples of Yoda's species we see are incredibly strong in the force, I could totally see it being that case that when an infant unusually strong in the force is born by their standards, they reach out through the force to the Jedi, and masters like Yoda sense it and come to pick up the child for training at the temple. It could be the case that it's something that's an honor, or altertively it could be the opposite is true - force users are shunned by their kind for some reason, so they send them away.

I know Lucas made it clear that Yoda's species is off limits for backstory, but thought this might be an interesting headcanon to run with.

Did you know that A Bridge Too Far came out the same year as Star Wars?

https://youtu.be/vbzuk4Q2Z0A?si=lzm8A5jqfdusHU4b

Makes me wonder if paratroopers were ever used in SW.

It spreads out in a big ring shape, could you deflect it or do you just have to dodge it?

i was reading about the mirialans on wookiepedia and it mentioned that they “naturally” revere the force, which got me thinking about how many of the canon (bear with me here) mirialans we see are jedi, fallen jedi, or otherwise force-sensitive.

i don’t really understand how force religions work, in some cases it seems like the entire species or group is force-sensitive (like dathomirian zabrak women and the human nightsisters), in some cases it seems a bit unclear (like the mountain clan), and in some cases it seems that only a few members of the species can use the force (like the lasat).

is it ever stated anywhere whether mirialans are inclined to be force-sensitive? the statement that they’re “naturally” inclined to revere the force and the fact that they have specific jedi traditions/agreements kind of makes me think a high number of them must be scouted by jedi, but i’m not sure if that’s correct or if i’m jumping to conclusions.

i’m most interested in canon, but i’m using the all continuities tag because i know that many species had a wealth of lore in legends that is no longer canon, so there may have been an answer there that wasn’t brought back yet.

thanks! :]

So I'm progressing through Andor and just started Season 2. The Narkina 5 arc from season 1 was interesting but it did leave me wondering. The inmates who were locked up were shocked when learning no one outside like Cassian knew about the PORD act.

I could easily see it being overlooked even more as the Galactic Civil War escalated and I wouldn't be surprised if conditions across the Empire got even worse once the second Death Star got put into production.

Given what we know about the New Republic, do we think that the courts might have done extensive overhaul and look through all these trumped up charges and let them free or just didn't bother checking and left things as they were?

I've been wondering lately. As we know, the Republic's military, initially composed of judicial (planetary defence?) forces, underwent centralisation, standardisation, and of course, an almost unimaginable expansion. In universe, I believe around millions of clone troopers were manufactured, trained, and served in the army and no doubt millions more served as navy personnel. (the exact number eludes me, but I think billions wouldn't be too far fetched considering the scale of Star Wars)

It seems that most senior officers in the Republic's Army and Navy were still humans or at least non-clones. I believe most if not all the of the Republic's captains and admirals shown in the Clone Wars show were humans from Tarkin to Kilian to Yularen. Of course, in the army, there was Colonel and later Brigadier General Meebur Gascon.

Since the army and navy expanded greatly, so would the officer corps in both branches as well. Though clones could hold a rank as high as Marshal, it seems that most of them still fell under the authority of a human or alien commander.

This leads me to my main question, though most of the senior officers shown in the Clone Wars were, well... senior, do we know anything about newly appointed non-clone officers in the Republic's military? Do we know anything about their appointments? How they were appointed? Obviously some officers graduated from places such as Carida Academy, but at the scale and speed of the Republic's expansion, would such academies be able to provide enough officers in time to function as subordinates, executives, ship commanders, regimental commanders, and so on and so forth? Are there any clear cases of civilians, politicians, people with no military experience, being appointed as officers directly into the Republic's military due to the need for organic (non-clone) senior officers?

The Republic, as we know, was quite corrupt, perhaps excessively so. It would not be implausible, I think, that patronage would be one of the recognised paths to a commission into the military. Using a historical analogy, we know that in the American Civil War, quite a few field officers: majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels were commissioned outright by the state to serve as volunteer officers. One of the more notable ones is the famous Colonel Chamberlain who was a professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College and turned down a colonel's commission and instead became a lieutenant colonel first as he thought himself too inexperienced for the job. Generals Benjamin Butler, John McClernand, and Nathaniel P. Banks were all commissioned as generals (of varying grades) without prior or at least extensive military experience (and only in the state militia for Butler). While obviously Star Wars is not the real world, there are still several notable parallels between the Republic and many historical and even modern governments, one of them being patronage... and in a corrupt Republic, perhaps that mattered most...

I would also ask the same question for the CIS, though I actually believe that appointing organic officers in the CIS is far more likely... as though there were indeed tactical droid generals, organic officers still seemed to hold the highest positions as generals, admirals, ship captains, and I believe in some parts of the CIS military, there were non-droid units where humans and aliens occupied all the ranks from the lowest to the highest.

I would appreciate corrections for any possible misunderstanding I may have about the lore.

Edit: Excluding the Jedi who were appointed officers, by the way.